HUBBS and WISNER REVISION OF THE SAL'KIE.S 



Cololabis saira (misidentification). — Schaeferand 

 Reintjes 1950:164 (between California and 

 Hawaii at 28' 22' N, 137"12' W; 25n4' N, 

 144°41' W; 23°52' N, 148°41' W; 23"04' N. 

 153°19' W; compared with "Cololahis adocetus." 

 these records thought [erroneously! to confirm 

 reference ofCololabis bi-evirostr-is to C. saii-a by 

 Hubbs 1916:157 and by Schultz 1940:2701. 

 Ramirez Hernandes and Gonzales Pages 

 1976:74 (reference to Peru only). 



Cololahis sp.— Clemens 1955:165 (3"3r S, 81 11' 

 W [presumptive identification due to locality |i. 

 King and Iversen 1962:301, tables 19-20, ap- 

 pendix table 8 (one 86 mm specimen taken in 

 Equatorial Counter Current) [identification 

 presumed from locality |." 



Scomberesocidae. — Mais and Jow 1960:131 

 (02 54' S, 99 37' W) [identification presumed 

 from locality |. 



Cololahis adocetus.— B'oUke 1951:83-87 (original 

 description; comparison, phylogeny; from 160 

 misouthwest of San Juan, Peru ( 17 S,76'50' W) 

 (holotype); and off Peru at 10°0r S, 80°05' W; 

 west of Chincha Isles, Peru, 13=35' S, 76=50' W; 

 arrested development). Knauss 1957:236 (in 

 oceanic front at about 3 N, 120 W). Gosline 

 1959:73 (neotenic); Gosline and Brock 1960:128, 

 318 (Hawaii; compared with C. saira). Chyung 

 1961:277 (reference to Bohlke 1951). Koepcke 

 1962:197 (references; knownonly from Peru, 10 

 to 17° S). Clemens and Nowell 1963:251-255 

 (records offEcuador, Peru, Chile). Hotta 1964:4, 

 fig. 22 (distribution off Peru). Orton 1964:144- 

 145, 148- 149 (description of pelagic and ovarian 

 eggs from off Peru, 8°07' to 10' 51' W; range 

 overlaps that of S. saurus; vertebral numbers). 

 Lindberg and Legeza 1965:209 translation, 

 1969:201 (Peru). CoUette 1966:3, 15 (neoteny; 

 meristic reduction; phylogeny; generic status). 

 Ebeling 1967:599 (distribution mainly in cen- 

 tral water mass in eastern Pacific Ocean ). Parin 

 1967b:150 (117 in translation) (larvae may be 

 caught near surface at any time of day); 1967a: 

 many pages (distribution in very warm water) 

 Rass 1967:58, 60, 63-66, 129 (distribution). 

 Parin 1968b:many pages (an epipelagic fish said 

 to be limited to tropical waters of eastern Pacific 

 and near Hawaii); 1968a: many pages, fig. 2,3, 5 



(comparisons, relationships; distribution and 

 ecology). ChirichignoF. 1969:40 (vernaculars in 

 Peru, Chile). Parin 1969a:715, 719, fig. (epipe- 

 lagial; distribution, dwarf fish, false pike; east- 

 ern tropical Pacific); 1969b:577 (462 in transla- 

 tion), fig. 2 (northern part of area surveyed off 

 west side of South America; numerical abun- 

 dance charted; as many as 1,000 trawled in 20 

 min with pleuston net south of Galapagos Is- 

 lands). Ueyanagi et al. 1969:6-7, fig. 12 (occur- 

 rence off Peru). Ueyanagi and Doi 1971:17-21, 

 fig. 15 (distribution in southeastern Pacific 

 mapped; characters distinguishing juveniles of 

 C. adocetus from C saira and S. saurus). 

 Ahlstrom 1972:1192, 1196, fig. 14 (occurrence of 

 larvae in eastern tropical Pacific). Suda 

 1973:2134-2135, fig. 7 (range in eastern Pacific; 

 dwarf species; not suitable for a commercial 

 fi.shery). Chirichigno F. 1974:318-319, 331, fig. 

 628 (characters in key; Peru, 10° to 12"' S). Nel- 

 son 1976:172 (neotenic). Parin 1975:314-316 

 (records near Equator at about 97= W). 



The Southern Subspecies of 

 Scotnheresox iaiirns 



We have found that the disjunct, widespread, 

 circumglobal Southern Hemisphere population of 

 Scombereso.x saurus is slightly differentiated from 

 the topotypic Northern Hemisphere Atlantic 

 form, as Parin (1968a) has tentatively suggested. 

 Before presenting the evidence we list, with anno- 

 tations, the rather complicated synonymic refer- 

 ences that apply distinctively to the southern 

 form, and here eliminate references in which the 

 names used are synonyms of the North Atlantic 

 subspecies Scomberesox saurus saurus, namely 

 Scombresox, Scomberesox, or Scombresose, equi- 

 rostrum or aequirostrum, Scombresox or Scom- 

 beresox rondeletii , or Scomberesox storeri. We 

 have, however, retained carded citations to those 

 references. 



Sconiheresnx saurus scotiihroides 

 (Richardson 1842)'^ 



Esox saurus. — Schneider ;/; Bloch and Schneider 

 1801:394 (in part; "J. R. Forster MSS. II. 63"; 

 New Zealand). 



'The general area of the Equatorial Countercurrent, in which 

 the small specimen was taken, is stated as between about 05° ani 

 10° S (fig. 12). No coordmat^s were given fer the capture but the 

 area sampled within this current extended from about 108° to 

 160° W (fig. 4). 



'The synonsTny of what we treat as the Southern Hemisphere 

 subspecies of Scomfeert'soj: saurus lists in sequence of first usage 

 the varied names that have been applied thereto, whether ongi- 

 nally based on the Northern Hemisphere form or on Southern 

 Hemisphere material. 



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